The forest is composed of trees with large, broad leaves situated in a very wet area, which constitutes a large part of our Amazon Basin – the largest river basin in the world. This basin covers approximately six million square kilometers and 1,100 tributaries.
Occupying an area of more than four million square kilometers, the Amazon is the biome with the greatest biodiversity in the world, containing around 45,000 species of plants and vertebrate animals, which comprise almost 20% of the biodiversity of the entire planet.
